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The Angry Eye.<br />

[NOLAN]. HARRIS, Max.<br />

# 2199<br />

Sydney: Pergamon Press, 1973. Octavo, original decorated boards<br />

with Ned Kelly motif in Nolan illustrated dust jacket (light wear, slight<br />

offsetting to endpapers). Introduction by Rupert Murdoch. The sequel<br />

to Harris’ first book ‘The Vegetative Eye’<br />

$ 40<br />

The Vegetative Eye.<br />

[NOLAN]. HARRIS, Max.<br />

# 2198<br />

Melbourne and Adelaide: Reed and Harris, 1943. Large octavo, original<br />

boards in Sidney Nolan illustrated dust jacket (tiny chip to head<br />

of spine, light foxing, but quite scarce in this condition), the image<br />

also reproduced as a colour frontispiece. The Nolan illustration is a<br />

haunting chalk drawing of a figure’s head. The first book by Australian<br />

literary figure Max Harris, the first dust jacket illustrated by Sidney<br />

Nolan. A wartime publication scarce in good condition, published in an<br />

edition of 1500 copies (COWLEY, Des, A checklist of Reed & Harris<br />

Publications, in The La Trobe Journal No 64, Spring 1999, p. 48).<br />

$ 175

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